WO1999017229A1 - Image display bookmark system - Google Patents

Abstract

An image display bookmark system in which a bookmark is displayed as a reduced image of the page corresponding thereto and which can restrict the management of bookmarks for every user. The image display bookmark system (100) consists of a bookmark processing unit (111) in a processor (110) and a data storage device (120). The bookmark processing unit (111) registers the reduced images of the corresponding pages of a WWW browser (113). By selecting a registered reduced image, the corresponding page is displayed on the GUI screen of the WWW browser (113). Further, a system manager can set a right to register, change or delete bookmarks of every user. Moreover, the pages corresponding to the registered images are autopiloted by an automatic patrol unit (111g) to update the reduced images, titles or URLs and the bookmarks are kept up-to-dated with the latest information.

Description

Image display bookmark system

Technical field

 The present invention relates to a www browser system that refers to the World Wide Web (WWW) provided on the Internet.

 The present invention relates to an image display bookmark system that can register a reduced image of a page for each WWW page as a bookmark so that a WWW page can be more visually and efficiently selected in a www browser.

Background art

 In recent years, it has become popular to refer to or create www pages provided on the Internet, and many books and books related to these pages have been sold. WWW is an abbreviation of the World Wide Web (Word 1 d Wid e Web), and refers to a worldwide information network using the Internet. The WWW page is a unit of information that constitutes a Web document. CAL S (Continuous A c qu isitionand L ifecyc 1 e) stored in an arbitrary WWW server installed on the WWW Formats used in S upport) S HTML (HTM L (Hypertext markup, language), which is a type of format based on Standardized Generalized Language (GML). Was

Consists of HTML documents and related image data. The WWW browser receives this page from the website using a protocol called HTTP (Hyper.Text.Transmission Protocol), and starts the WWW browser. On the screen of the display device of the computer. The page uses reserved words prepared in the HTML described above to provide text information such as asc as i and the like, image information consisting of graphic data, audio information, video information, and the like. It can be provided to WWW browser users. This allows users of WWW browsers to browse or listen to pages from all over the world while at home, while transmitting their own pages to the entire world.

 In this specification, when the expression “display” a page by the www browser is used, in addition to text information and image information included in the page, so-called multimedia information such as audio information and video information. Also includes the output of

 Data such as an HTML document for displaying the `` page '' and an image data is usually stored in a WWW server installed on the WWW for each user of the WWW server. The users include individuals, governments, businesses, and other organizations. Each user can hierarchically construct a page by designating the HTML document, and the top-level page of each user is particularly called a “homepage”. For example, each user may provide a link (entrance) to the "home page" to some other page, and the page to which the link further has a link to some other page I can do it. This link is usually called a "hyperlink", and a symbol indicating the linked page is displayed on the page displayed by the WWW browser (for example, an image that indirectly represents the address of the page or the content of the page). Etc.).

The user of the WWW browser can switch the display to the linked page by clicking the symbol with a mouse (jump to the linked page). Can be. In addition, these links can be

You can also specify a page at a higher level or any page on another website. To specify a page in the HTML document, an address called a URL (Unif rm Resource Locator) for identifying each page on the Internet is used. For example, "http: Z no www.xx.co.jp/Samp1es/Sam1e.html ".

 The user of the WWW browser switches the display to a desired page by clicking a symbol indicating another page displayed on the page displayed by the WWW browser, and switches the display. By clicking the symbol indicating another page displayed on a given page, the display can be switched to another page, and the display of pages can be switched one after another. At this time, the WWW browser obtains, from the currently displayed HTML document, the URL of the target page associated with the clicked symbol by an HTML code (tag) called an anchor. After that, the WWW browser accesses the WWW server corresponding to the address indicated by the URL via the Internet, and retrieves the target data (in this case, the target page in this case) from the Web site stored in the WWW server. An HTML document and other data necessary for displaying the HTML document are downloaded to the memory or storage device of the computer on which the WWW browser is running via the Internet or the like via the Internet.

 Next, the WWW browser displays the data as a page on the display device of the computer, waiting for the download of the data to be completed, or together with a download.

Currently, WWW browsers such as Netscape's Netscape 'Navige Itsuya' and Microsoft's Internet 'Explorer' are provided and widely used. Powerful, these WWW browsers, of course, have the features described above. In addition to the method of referring to a page by switching pages one by one as described above, so-called “net surfing”, in addition to the method of referring to the page to be displayed

If the URL is known in advance, there is a method of directly typing the URL into the location specifying area on the GUI of the WWW browser (Graphica1UserIintelefcac). However, some users need to look at stock quotes and news pages every day. As described above, when it is necessary to refer to a certain page every time, it is inconvenient and inefficient to type the above-mentioned URL of ten characters each time. Therefore, in order to easily display such a page, the www browser generally has a function called “bookmark function”.

 The “bookmark function” is a function that registers favorite sites on the Internet's www browser and frequently accessed pages. The URL of the page to be displayed is stored in advance as one of the bookmark data. Use the "Display Bookmarks" to list the pages that are registered as bookmarks, and then select the relevant page by clicking the mouse, etc., to type in an annoying URL. It is possible to display a desired page without causing any wasted time due to typographical errors.

FIG. 1 shows a typical bookmark display screen 10. As shown in the figure, bookmarks can be managed hierarchically, and a set of bookmarks 12 can be managed in one folder 11. As a result, the user can categorize and arrange the bookmarks 12 by category, and can efficiently access the desired bookmarks 12 even when there are many bookmarks 12. For example, referring to the bookmark display screen 10 in FIG. 1, “L 0 0 kup” In the phonoreda 11, the bookmarks “P eop 1 e” and “Y e 11 owP age sJ” are registered as bookmarks, and these bookmarks 1 2 are stored in the folder 1 1 “L Clicking “0 0 kup” with a mouse or the like displays a list as shown in the figure.

 Titles such as “People” and “Yellow Pages” that identify bookmarks 12 are typically set by the creator of the page that corresponds to the bookmark 12. The title is used as is. The user of the WWW browser can double-click a line (object) indicating the bookmark 12 such as “Pe0p1e” on the bookmark display screen 10 in FIG. A desired page can be easily selected and displayed by, for example, clicking on a line indicating the desired bookmark 12 in a pop-up window (not shown) for simply displaying the bookmark 12.

 Bookmarks 1 and 2 are usually added when the desired page is displayed by first typing the URL in the location area of the WWW browser, or when the desired page is found using the above-mentioned internet surfing, etc. In such a case, the page is displayed on a WWW browser, and the user clicks a mouse or other operation to specify "add bookmark". At this time, the URL and title of the page are automatically registered as the bookmark 12, and the title of the page is used as the title of the registered bookmark 12 corresponding to the page. In addition, in the operation of adding a new bookmark 12 on the bookmark display screen 10 shown in Fig. 17, a new bookmark 12 is added to the desired folder 11 by typing a URL or a title. You can also.

The bookmark 12 displayed on the bookmark display screen 10 in Fig. 1 contains information such as the URL of the page, the title of the page, and the comments of the WWW browser user. For example, on the bookmark display screen 10 shown in Fig. 1, a bookmark editing screen (not shown) is displayed by selecting the property of the target bookmark 12 with the mouse. You can edit with. Furthermore, it is possible to delete and move the bookmark 12 itself (including moving to another folder) on the bookmark display screen 1 ◦ shown in FIG. 1 by operating the mouse or the like. With the bookmark function, a user can select a bookmark of a desired page from a plurality of bookmarks registered in advance by using a mouse or the like without inputting a URL having a long number of characters for the page each time, and the page is displayed on a www browser. Can be displayed.

 The title used to identify a bookmark (ie, the title of a page) is usually specified by the creator of the page, and may consist of long strings of characters or obscure expressions. There are many titles. Also, as described above, the URL of a page often consists of a long character string, and is not suitable for easily identifying a bookmark (and a page displayed by its specification). For example, the title of the bookmark displayed on the conventional bookmark display screen is the title of the page as it is, but it is displayed in very small characters, and many are written in English, It is not easy for elderly people and children to identify pages.

In addition, the bookmark function of the conventional WWW browser allows all users of the WWW browser to register (add), delete, and modify all bookmarks, and it is possible to restrict the above operations on bookmarks for each user. Can not. With a conventional WWW browser that has such a bookmark function, for example, if a www browser is introduced in an educational setting, etc., only the teacher can register and modify the bookmark. It is not possible to prohibit students from freely registering bad pages in bookmarks, or modifying registered pages into such pages.

 Furthermore, traditional www browsers may improve their bookmarking capabilities to address the aforementioned issues, so that only certain people can register and modify bookmarks, while others do not. However, it also has the problem that any page can be accessed by directly entering the URL of the page in the location specification area on the GUI screen of the WWW browser.

 Furthermore, even if the actual URL or title corresponding to the page already registered in the bookmark is changed, the bookmark function of the conventional WWW browser is registered in the bookmark according to the change. You cannot automatically change the URL or title of the page you are on. In recent years, the consolidation and elimination of providers and WWW servers on the Internet has been flourishing, and with this, URLs and titles of pages have been actively changed. In such a situation, the conventional bookmark function is registered as a bookmark because it does not automatically reflect the change of the actual URL or title of the page in the URL or title of the page registered in the bookmark. Information such as page URLs and titles quickly become obsolete. In particular, if the URL of the page is changed, the WWW user can correct the changed URL on the bookmark edit screen, or access the page of the changed URL and try again. Unless a bookmark is registered, it is not possible to access the page whose URL has been changed properly. Also, if the title of the page is changed, it does not affect the access of the page, but the title registered in the bookmark differs from the title of the page actually accessed. It does not fit the actual situation.

In order to solve the above-described problems, the present invention provides a device for registering a reduced image of a page as bookmark data when registering the page as a bookmark. When displaying the bookmark list, a function to display a thumbnail image of all pages registered as bookmarks as an icon for selecting the registered bookmarks, and a user interface of the WWW browser A function that restricts the registration (addition), deletion, and modification of bookmarks individually and prohibits direct entry of page addresses, automatically traverses pages registered as bookmarks, and displays images of the pages. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a function of acquiring the latest information of a URL or a title, and a function of reflecting the latest information on a bookmark data of the page.

Disclosure of the invention

 In order to achieve the above object, in one embodiment of the image display bookmark system according to the present invention, address information on a network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, And a bookmark display control unit for displaying the image information registered by the bookmark registration unit. According to this configuration, the address information can be registered as a bookmark associated with the image of the page data. Further, the image of the registered page data can be displayed as a list of bookmarks.

The image display bookmark system further includes a page acquisition instructing unit that instructs a browser to acquire page data based on address information corresponding to the image information when the image information displayed by the bookmark display control unit is specified. In addition, when the image information displayed by the bookmark display control unit is designated, a page display control unit that displays page data acquired based on address information corresponding to the image information is further provided. You may comprise so that it may have. According to this configuration, it is displayed in association with the image of the page data. By selecting a bookmark from the list display, page data corresponding to the selected bookmark can be displayed.

 Further, in the above-described image display bookmark system, the bookmark registration unit registers the address information and the image information for each user, and the bookmark display control unit registers the image information of the designated user in the bookmark registration unit. May be displayed based on the information about the user

. According to this configuration, the bookmark information can be managed for each user. The image display bookmark system described above may further include a bookmark editing unit that edits the image information and the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit. According to this configuration, the contents of the bookmark information can be edited.

 In this image display bookmark system, a user authority definition unit that defines, for each user, an authority for editing the image information and the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit, and an authority defined by the user authority definition unit. And a control unit that restricts editing of the image information and the address information by the bookmark editing unit for each user. According to this configuration, the authority of the bookmark information editing operation is defined for each user, so that the user can only display the image of the page registered already as a bookmark. it can.

In the above-described image display bookmark system, the bookmark registration unit further registers the title information of the page data, and the bookmark display control unit displays the image information and the title information registered by the bookmark registration unit. , May be configured as follows. According to this configuration, the title information of the page data can be displayed in association with the image of the page data displayed as a bookmark. In another embodiment of the image display book mark system according to the present invention, address information on a network and image information of page data acquired based on the address information are registered. The page data is acquired at predetermined time intervals based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit and the bookmark registration unit, and the contents of the page data and the contents obtained when the page data was acquired last time. An automatic circulating unit that registers update information indicating whether or not the content of the page data is updated, obtained by comparing,, image information registered by the bookmark registration unit, and update information registered by the automatic circulating unit; And a bookmark display control unit for displaying. According to this configuration, the address information can be registered as a bookmark associated with the image of the page data and displayed as a list display of the bookmark, and the contents of the basic information are updated. If this is the case, the updated information can be displayed automatically.

 In the image display bookmark system, when the update information registered by the automatic patrol unit indicates that the content of the page data has been updated, the bookmark display control unit transmits the image information of the page data. You may comprise so that it may be displayed. According to this configuration, a page indicated by the address information included in the bookmark can be automatically accessed and displayed.

 Further, in the above-described image display bookmark system, the update information is updated at least one of the display content when displaying the page data, the address information corresponding to the page data, and the title information of the page data. Information that indicates In this case, such update information can be displayed by the bookmark display control unit.

Further, in the above-described image display bookmark system, the automatic traversing unit includes a page acquired based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit. If the data has information about the change of the address information corresponding to the page data, it may be configured to acquire the page data acquired based on the information about the change. With this configuration, even if the address of the page is changed when the page data is accessed, the updated address can be accessed and the latest page data can be displayed.

 Further, in the above-described image display bookmark system, the image information of the page data displayed by the bookmark display control unit may include a reduced image of the image displayed when the browser acquires the page data. In this way, a reduced image of the page data image displayed by the browser can be displayed as a bookmark.

 Also, a bookmark registration procedure for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and a bookmark display control for displaying image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure. When the image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure is specified, a page acquisition instruction procedure instructing a browser to acquire page data based on address information corresponding to the image information, and a program for causing a computer to execute The recorded computer-readable recording medium is also related to the present invention. By causing the computer to read and execute the program recorded in the storage medium, the address information is registered as a bookmark associated with the image of the page data, and the registered bookmark list of the image of the page data is registered. It is possible to cause the computer to perform a display as a display and a display of a page corresponding to the selection of the displayed bookmark from the list display.

Further, a bookmark registration procedure for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and a bookmark display control for displaying image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure. When the user designates the image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure and the bookmark display control procedure, the computer executes the page display control procedure for displaying the page data acquired based on the address information corresponding to the image information. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program to be recorded is recorded is also related to the present invention. By causing a computer to read and execute the program recorded in the storage medium, registration as a bookmark associated with the image of the page data of the address information and bookmark of the registered image of the page data are also performed. It is possible to cause the computer to perform the display as a list display of, and the display of page data corresponding to the selection of the displayed bookmark from the list display.

 In another embodiment according to the present invention, in a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by a www browser, at least the image information of the page displayed by the www browser and the aforementioned page Creation means for creating bookmark information including the address information of the book, bookmark registration means for registering the bookmark information created by the creation means in a storage means, and the WWW browser stored in the storage means Reading means for reading the bookmark information including the displayed page image information; and an image for identifying the page based on the image information included in the bookmark information read by the reading means. And a bookmark display control means for displaying on a screen. Thus, the bookmark can be registered in association with the image of the page displayed on the WWW browser. Further, a bookmark can be displayed on the screen in association with the image of the page displayed on the WWW browser.

An image display bookmark system according to another embodiment of the present invention is displayed on a screen based on image information of a page displayed by the www browser included in the bookmark information. When an image is selected Reading means for reading the bookmark information including information on the image information from the storage means; and based on the address information of the page registered in the bookmark information read by the reading means, And a WWW page display control means for displaying the image of the page acquired by the acquiring means on a screen. Thus, by selecting a bookmark displayed in association with the image of the page, the page corresponding to the bookmark can be displayed on the screen.

 An image display bookmark system according to another embodiment of the present invention is a bookmark system capable of managing bookmark information used in a www browser, wherein at least the bookmark information stored in the storage unit is: The system includes a bookmark editing unit that includes image information of a page displayed by the www browser and address information of the page, and edits the contents of the bookmark information. This allows the contents of the bookmark information to be edited.

 An image display bookmark system according to another embodiment of the present invention includes at least image information of a page displayed by the www browser.

A bookmark registration unit for registering bookmark information including the address information of the page and the title information of the page in a storage unit; and reading the bookmark information stored in the storage unit, at least included in the bookmark information. Bookmark display control means for displaying an image for identifying the page based on the image information of the page displayed by the www browser. Thereby, it is possible to register image information relating to a page image displayed on the www browser and bookmark information including title information of the page. Further, an image display bookmark system according to another embodiment of the present invention includes at least image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser, title information on the page, address information of the page, or A bookmark registration unit for registering bookmark information including update information indicating whether or not the content of the page has been changed since the previous access to the storage unit; reading the bookmark information stored in the storage unit; And an image for identifying the page created based on the image information of the page displayed by the www browser included in the link information and the information based on the update information are displayed together on a screen. And a bookmark display control means for causing the bookmark to be displayed. Thereby, the update information can be displayed on the screen together with the image information on the image of the page displayed on the www browser.

 Further, an image display bookmark system according to another embodiment of the present invention is configured to specify, based on predetermined time information, address information of a page included in each bookmark information stored in the storage unit. An access unit for automatically accessing a page of the designated address, and acquiring change information on the page; and when the access unit acquires the change information of the page, the address information based on the change information. And updating the information included in the bookmark information including the following, and registering the updated bookmark information in the storage unit. This makes it possible to automatically access the page of the address included in the bookmark and update the bookmark information to the latest information.

A bookmark registration step of registering, in a storage unit, at least bookmark information including image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser and address information of the page; and the image of the page included in the bookmark information. Based on the information, an image for identifying the page is displayed on the screen of the display means. A bookmark display control step of displaying, when the image of the previous page is selected by the selection means on the screen, reading the bookmark information including the information on the image information from the storage means; A WWW page display control step of acquiring an image of the page of the address specified by the address information of the page registered in the acquired bookmark information, and displaying the acquired image of the page on a screen. The bookmark display / selection method is also a method according to the present invention. This allows a bookmark to be registered in association with the image of the page displayed on the www browser.

The bookmark can be displayed on the screen in association with the image of the page displayed in the www browser, and further, by selecting the bookmark displayed in association with the image of the page, The page corresponding to the bookmark can be displayed on the screen.

Further, the present invention is a recording medium which records a program for realizing a bookmark system capable of managing bookmark information used in a www browser, and at least a page displayed on a screen of a display means by the WWW browser. A bookmark registration step of registering bookmark information including image information and address information of the page in a storage unit; reading out the image information of the page included in the bookmark information from the storage unit, based on the image information; A bookmark display control step of displaying an image for identifying the page on the screen of the display means; and, when the image of the page is selected on the screen, the storage means: Reading the bookmark information corresponding to the page; A WWW page display control step of acquiring an image of a page of an address specified by address information of a page registered in mark information, and displaying the acquired image of the page on a screen of the display unit. A program that implements the image display bookmark information management method The recorded recording medium is also one of those according to the present invention. Thereby, a bookmark can be registered in association with the image of the page displayed on the www browser, and the bookmark can be registered on the page displayed on the www browser. And displaying the page corresponding to the bookmark on the screen by selecting a bookmark displayed in association with the image of the page. Can be. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE FIGURES

 FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a conventional bookmark display screen.

 FIG. 2 is a block diagram of the image display bookmark system according to one embodiment of the present invention.

 FIG. 3A is a diagram showing a bookmark display screen of the first embodiment of the image display bookmark system.

 FIG. 3B is a diagram showing a menu configuration of the first embodiment of the image display bookmark system.

 FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation control parameter overnight designation screen.

 FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a user ID designation screen in the bookmark display screen of the image display bookmark system.

 FIG. 6A shows an attribute change screen.

 FIG. 6B is a diagram showing an image size change screen.

 FIG. 7 is a view showing a pass-pad designation screen of the system administrator in the bookmark display screen of the image display bookmark system.

FIG. 8 is a diagram showing a user ID designation screen and a password designation screen of a general user on the bookmark display screen of the image display book mark system. You.

 FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a processing flow of bookmark registration.

 FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating a method of reducing a capture image.

 FIG. 11 is a diagram showing a processing flow for displaying a bookmark display screen for the first time.

 FIG. 12 is a flowchart of a process for displaying the bookmark display screen of the general user ID.

 FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a bookmark data file editing screen.

 FIG. 14 is a diagram showing a processing flow from selection of a bookmark to display of a page.

 FIG. 158 is a diagram showing operation control parameters.

 FIG. 15B shows a user management file.

 FIG. 15C shows a bookmark data file.

 FIG. 15D is a diagram showing a reduced image data file.

 FIG. 16A is a diagram showing a bookmark display screen of the second embodiment of the image display bookmark system.

 FIG. 16B is a diagram showing a title / update information display section of the second embodiment of the image display bookmark system.

 FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a configuration of a computer that executes the image display bookmark system. BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. In each of the drawings, the same or similar components are denoted by the same reference numerals or symbols. FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a system configuration of the image display bookmark system 10 ◦ according to one embodiment of the present invention. The image display bookmark system 100 includes a bookmark processing unit 111 in the processing device 110 and a data storage device 120. The processing unit 110 is usually a CPU such as a personal computer or a UNIX workstation, and the data storage unit 120 is usually a hard disk device such as the personal computer or a UNIX workstation or another storage device. . The processing device 110 and the data storage device 120 are connected to a bus 140 via an interface circuit (not shown), and the processing device 110 is connected to the bus 140 via the bus 140. Data in the data storage device 120 can be referenced or updated.

 The processing device 110 is also connected to the internet 130 by a network interface unit (communication control unit) 112, which is a function of the processing device 110. You. The connection may be a dial-up connection via a public line, a dedicated line connection using a dedicated line, or any other connection form. Further, the processing device 110 is connected to the input device 150 and the display device 160 via the bus 140. The input device 150 is typically an input device such as a keyboard / mouse. The input device 150 performs activation and other instructions for a program executed by the processing device 110, and receives input data. Or enter The display device 150 is usually a display device such as a CRT display, and an input screen on which instructions and input data are input and a processing result are output by a program executed by the processing device 110. Output screen is displayed.

The processing device 110 includes the bookmark processing unit 111, the network interface unit 112, and a WWW browser 113, and the bookmark processing unit 111 includes: Operation control parameter editing unit 1 1 1 a, user management file editing unit 1 1 lb, login control unit 1 1 1 c, bookmark registration unit 1 1 ld, bookmark display control unit 111 e, bookmark data file editing unit 111 f, automatic patrol unit 111g, and WWW page display control unit 111h include functional blocks. The bookmark processing unit 111 is incorporated as a function of the WWW browser 113, or is provided as in-line plug-in software, for example, and is related to bookmarks of the WWW browser 113. It expands the function.

 The data storage device 120 includes the operation control parameter file 121, the user management file 122, the bookmark data file 123, and the reduced image data file 124. In.

The operation control parameter editing unit 1 1 1 a has a function of setting or changing various control parameters required for operating the image display bookmark system 100. These setting contents are the operation control parameters. Retained in file 1 2 1 The user management file editing unit 1 1 1 b has a function of performing necessary settings for each user, and the contents of these settings are individually stored for each user in the user management file 122. . The login control unit 111c manages login of the administrator and general users to the image display bookmark system 100. When the user of the WWW browser 113 instructs registration of a bookmark, the bookmark registration unit 111d stores information about the page displayed on the WWW browser 113, and stores the information in the bookmark data file 112. Store it in 3. The bookmark display control unit 111 e displays the registered bookmark in the bookmark display screen according to the setting contents of the operation control parameter file 121 and the user management file 122. ). The bookmark data file editing unit 111 has a function of editing a part of the contents of the bookmark data file 123 created for each user. The automatic patrol unit 1 1 1 g stores in advance the user management file 122 Based on the set automatic patrol designated time information, for each registered bookmark in the bookmark data file 123, the corresponding page is displayed, for example, at a predetermined time or a predetermined time interval. Access every time and automatically update the bookmark with the latest information. The WWW page display control unit 11 lh, according to the user's bookmark (icon) designation of the WWW browser 113, prints the URL in the bookmark data file 123 registered at the designated bookmark. Access via the network 130, obtain the HTML document of the page registered in the bookmark, pass the HTML document to the WWW browser 113, and send it to the WWW browser 113. The image of the page is displayed on the display device 160. The WWW page display control unit 1 1 1 h passes the URL obtained from the bookmark to the WWW browser 1 13 and requests the WWW browser 1 13 to perform a series of the above-described access processing and display control processing. You may do so.

 Next, the operation of the image display bookmark system 100 having the above configuration will be described with reference to FIGS. 3A to 16B.

 FIG. 3A shows an embodiment of a bookmark display screen 200 of the image display bookmark system 100. The image display bookmark system 1 ◦ 0 is capable of displaying a bookmark display screen 200 in which each registered bookmark is displayed as a list with images. The bookmark display screen 200 is a conventional operation for displaying a bookmark editing screen from the WWW browser 100 or a conventional operation for simply displaying a bookmark in a pop-up window (for example, in the case of Netscape Navigator, It is displayed by performing a button, pressing the favorite button on the Internet Explorer, etc.).

It should be noted that the image display bookmark system of the present invention is a program separate from the browser. In the case of a web browser, the API of the Windows 0 ws system (A pp 1 ication Program Interface) is used to obtain the window identifier corresponding to the title of the WW browser, and the WWW browser監視 Monitor input messages to windows and detect bookmark activation notifications to display the bookmark display screen as described above. In addition, as described above, the image display bookmark system is started according to the start of the bookmark of the WWW browser, and is started separately from the www browser to display the bookmark registration screen, and the bookmark is registered in the www browser. While the URL to be recorded and the corresponding page data are displayed, the registration may be instructed on the bookmark registration screen of the image display bookmark system started separately.

 The bookmark display screen 200 includes a menu section 230, a folder display section 210, and an image display section 220. When the “File (F)” portion of the menu section 230 is selected by an operation such as clicking a mouse (not shown), a list of operations that can be executed on the bookmark display screen 200 is displayed as a pull-down menu 240. Is displayed. Details of the pull-down menu 240 will be described later with reference to FIG. 3B.

Further, by selecting the “Help (H)” portion of the menu section 230 by clicking the mouse or the like, it is possible to display help information on the operation of the bookmark display screen 200 in a predetermined format. In the folder display section 210, several folders for storing a plurality of registered bookmarks are displayed, and bookmarks belonging to a certain category are usually stored for each folder. The image display unit 220 displays a reduced image of a page corresponding to the bookmark in the folder selected by the folder display unit 210 (by clicking a mouse or the like). In this example, "D efau 1 There are five bookmarks in a folder named “t”, and five corresponding images (icons) 2 2 1 that are reduced images of each page are displayed. The folder “D efau 1 t” includes two folders named “Search” and “Computer Shop” in addition to the five bookmarks. When these folders 2 11 are selected, a reduced image 2 2 1 of a page image corresponding to all bookmarks belonging to the designated folder is displayed in the image display section 220. You.

 When the image 221 is selected by clicking on the image display unit 220 with a mouse or the like, the Internet 13 3 is displayed on the Web site of the URL registered in the bookmark corresponding to the image 221. 0 is accessed via a web browser 100, and a page corresponding to the selected image 222 is displayed in a portion for displaying a conventional page on the GUI screen of the web browser 100, that is, a page display section (not shown). Is displayed. The image 221 is initially displayed at a position determined by a predetermined rule by the bookmark display control unit 111 e, but the display position of each image 221 is changed by dragging the mouse. It can be changed freely by operation or the like.

 FIG. 3B shows the operation menu 240 of the bookmark display screen 200 which is expanded as a pull-down menu when “File (F)” of the menu section 230 of FIG. 3A is selected. . The user selects one of the items from “Login (I)” 241 to “End of application” 246 with the mouse to execute the operation corresponding to each item. Can be.

When "Login (1)" is selected, the login screen of a general user is displayed, and the login control unit 111c checks the user ID and password of the general user input through the login screen. (See Fig. 8, details of which will be described later.) If “Logout (0)” is selected, the login of the current general user is terminated to enable a new login. "Password change (P) "2 4 3 displays a screen (not shown) for changing the password of the user who has logged in as the general user, and the password can be registered or changed on that screen. .

 Ordinary users can register or change only their own passwords, but system administrators can also register or change passwords for all users so that system administrators can manage passwords for all users. . When "System Settings (C)" is selected, a submenu (400 in Fig. 5) consisting of "User Management (U)" and "URL Restriction (A;)" is displayed. By selecting items in this submenu, a screen for registering or changing each item in the user management file 122 is displayed (details will be described later).

When "Administrator (A)" is selected, a submenu (600 in Fig. 7) consisting of items of "Mouth Login (I)" and "Loglog (0)" is displayed. If you select “Login (1)” in, a screen for entering the password of the system administrator is displayed. This password is checked by the login control unit 111c in the same manner as in the case of login of a general user. If it is determined that the entered password is correct, as described later, for example, special authority such as setting URL access restrictions for the user described later is given. If "Login (0)" is selected in the submenu 600, the current login is terminated to enable a new login (details will be described later). When "End of application (X)" 246 is selected, the processing of the bookmark display control section 111 e for displaying the bookmark display screen 200 is terminated, and the bookmark display screen 2 is displayed. The display of 00 ends. The display of the page display unit of the WWW browser 100 is executed as it is, and the display of the page is continued. FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an operation control parameter editing screen 300. Operation control parameter The meter edit screen 300 is displayed in the user ID mode specification area 310, the URL access restriction specification area 320, the default user ID specification area 330, the OK button 340, and the cancel button 350. The user ID mode designation area 310 and the URL access restriction designation area 320 are displayed in a check box format. Although the operation control parameter editing screen 300 is not shown in detail, an item or button in an arbitrary menu in the page display unit or the bookmark display screen 200 of the WWW browser 100 is not shown. As a result, the operation control parameter editing unit 1 1 1 a is started, and is displayed in a pop-up window as a result. The user ID mode, URL access restriction, and default are displayed in the operation control parameter file 12 1. The input area for setting each control parameter of the user ID is displayed in the corresponding designated area 310, 320, and 330, respectively.

Here, as shown in FIG. 15A, in the operation control parameter file 121, each control parameter of the user ID mode and the URL access restriction indicates a character format such as Yes or N0 or indicates them. When the user ID mode designation area 310 and the URL access restriction designation area 320 are displayed in a check box format, for example, Yes is checked and No is not checked Is converted to Next, when the 〇K button 340 is selected (pressed) with a mouse or the like, the operation control parameter editing unit 111a includes contents input via the operation control parameter editing screen 300. Is received, the content of the operation control parameter file 122 is updated based on the content, and the operation control parameter editing screen 300 is closed. At this time, the conversion related to the input check information for the check boxes 310 and 320 is performed in reverse to the conversion. When the cancel button 350 is selected, the operation control parameter editing unit 1111 a displays the operation control parameter editing screen 300 The operation control parameter edit screen 300 is closed without updating the contents of the operation control parameter file 122 with the input contents.

 When the user ID mode is Yes, bookmark management is performed for each user ID, and bookmarks are managed for individual user names stored in the user management file 122 of FIG. 15B. For example, in the bookmark data file 123 shown in FIG. 15C, the bookmark data of the user IDs “default” and “kenta” are separately managed. When the user ID mode is N0, bookmark management is not performed for each user ID, and the default user ID is the only valid user ID. When the URL access restriction is N0, the user can freely specify the URL in the location designation area on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100, and can access any page. When the URL access restriction is Yes, the URL designation in the location designation error on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100 is suppressed, and the user can access only the pages registered in advance in the bookmark.

 Further, a default pixel in the operation control parameter file 122 of FIG. 15A includes the image 22 1 displayed on the image display section 220 on the bookmark display screen 200. A default size is specified, where this value cannot be changed. On the other hand, each user can individually set the size of the image 222 on the image size change screen 5110 of FIG. 6B described later. Although pixels are used to specify the size of the image 221 here, other units representing the size may be used.

 Further, for convenience, the operation control parameter file 122 is shown in FIG. 15A as if it constitutes one file. Each of them may be in a different file.

FIG. 5 shows the bookmark display screen 200 similar to FIG. 3A. The bookmark display screen 200 includes the menu section 230, the folder display section 210, the image display section 220, and a plurality of images 222. In the user management file editing unit 11 lb, the system setting (C) is selected from the pull-down menu 240 on the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 5, and the result of the selection is displayed. When the user management (U) is selected from the selected submenu 400 and the new user (N) is selected from the displayed submenu 410 as a result of the selection, the user management (U) shown in FIG. The new user ID specification screen 420 displayed by the pop-up window is displayed. The new user ID designation screen 4 2 ◦ includes a user ID input area 4 2 1, an OK button 4 2 2, and a cancel button 4 2 3. When the user presses the 2K button 422, the user management file editing section 1 1 1b, after several checks, makes a record with the user ID input to the user ID input area 4 21 as a user name. Is added to the user management file 122 and the new user ID designation screen 420 is closed. This additional operation may be set so that all users of the WWW browser 100 can perform the operation, or may be set so that only the system administrator can perform the operation. When a record is added to the user management file 122, a predetermined default value is automatically set in another item (eg, registration flag, image size, etc.) of the user name. . When the cancel button 4 2 3 is selected, the user management file editing section 1 1 1 b displays the new user ID designation screen 4 2 without adding a new record to the user management file 1 2 2. Close 0. When user deletion (D) is selected from the submenu 410, the user management file editing unit 11lb displays a user ID designation screen (not shown) including an area for designating a user ID. When the user ID to be deleted is entered in the area and the OK button is selected, the record in the user management file 122 with the entered user ID as the user name is deleted, and if necessary, , Previous Delete all records related to the input user ID in the bookmark data file 1 2 3 and close the user ID designation screen. It is desirable that such a delete operation is set so that only the system administrator can perform the delete operation. In addition, in the sense of final confirmation, a passcode designation screen for inputting a passcode of the user ID to be deleted can be displayed next to the user ID screen.

 When the cancel button is selected on the user ID designation screen, the user management file editing section 1 1 1 b reads the records in the user management file 1 22 and the bookmarks in the bookmark data file 1 2 3. The user ID designation screen is closed without deleting the record.

Fig. 6A shows the attribute change screen 500. The attribute change screen 500 has a user ID display area 501, a bookmark registerable specification area 502, and a bookmark changeable specification area 5. 0 3, Bookmark deleteable designation area 504, 0 K button 505, and Cancel button 506 .Bookmark registerable designation area 520, Bookmark changeable designation area 503, and bookmark deletion specifiable area ₅ 0 4 that is displayed in the check box format.

In the user management file editing unit 111b, the system setting (C) is selected from the pull-down menu 240 on the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 5, and the result of the selection is displayed. If URL restriction (A) is selected from the submenu 400 and the currently logged-in user is the system administrator, the new user ID designation screen shown in the pop-up window in Figure 4 Display a screen (not shown) similar to 420. The user management file editing unit 1 1 1 b is the user ID (user in the operation control parameter file 1 2 1 If the user ID mode is N◦, specify the default user ID in the operation control parameter file 121 and select the 0K button to display the attribute change screen shown in the pop-up window in Fig. 6A. Display 5 0 0. Using this screen 500, the access restriction of the URL of the designated user (that is, the authority for registering, changing, and deleting a bookmark) is set.

 Here, the setting of these restrictions is allowed only by the system administrator. However, other criteria may be set so that those other than the system administrator can make these settings. If the currently logged-in user is not a system administrator, these menu choices are initially disabled, an error message is displayed when selecting the menu, or any other appropriate response is returned. The use of the attribute change screen 500 is substantially suppressed. When the attribute change screen 500 is first displayed, the user management file editing unit 111b displays a screen similar to the new user ID designation screen 420 in the user ID display area 501. The ID of the user specified in is displayed, and the user management file 1 2 is displayed in the bookmark registration possible specification area 502, bookmark change specification area 503, and bookmark deletion specification area 504, respectively. The contents of the registration flag, change flag, and deletion flag corresponding to the user ID in 2 are displayed. Since the registration flag, change flag, and delete flag have a value of Yes or No, a bookmark registerable designation area 502 of the attribute change screen 500, a book mark changeable designation area According to the check box format display of 503 and the bookmark deleteable specification area 504, the display is made after conversion if there is Yes if there is a check, and if it is N ° there is no check.

When the OK button 505 is selected, the user management file editing section 111b sets the user ID displayed in the user ID display area 501 to a user name after several checks. Registration of records in the user management file 1 2 2 The flag, change flag, and delete flag are updated to the values entered in the bookmark registerable specification area 502, bookmark changeable specification area 503, and bookmark deleteable specification area 504, respectively. The attribute change screen 500 is closed. At this time, contrary to the above-described conversion, conversion to a value of Yes or N0 is performed based on the presence or absence of a check for the check boxes 502 to 504. In addition, when the cancel button 506 is selected, the user management file editing unit 111b does not update any record in the user management file 122 and updates the attribute change screen 5 Close 0◦.

 When the URL access restriction of the operation control parameter file 122 is N0, the registration flag, change flag, and deletion flag of the record in the user management file 122 for each user become valid. When the registration flag is Yes, the user can register a desired page as a bookmark. When the registration flag is N0, the registration is prohibited. Similarly, in the case of the change flag and the deletion flag, the bookmark can be changed or deleted in the case of Yes, and is prohibited in the case of No.

Figure 6B shows the image size change screen 5110. This screen 5110 is the user ID display area 511, size (vertical) designated area 512, and size (horizontal) designated area 51. It consists of 3, 0 K button 5 14 and cancel button 5 15. In the user management file editing unit 111b, the system setting (C) is selected from the pull-down menu 240 on the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 5, and the result of the selection is displayed. When user management (U) is selected from the submenu 400 and the user attribute (A) is selected from the submenu 410 displayed as a result of the selection, the pop-up shown in Fig. 6B is displayed. The image resizing screen 5110 shown in the window is displayed. When the OK button 5 14 is selected, the user management file editing section 1 1 1 b passes through several checks to specify the size (vertical) designated area 5 12 and the size (horizontal) designated area 5 1 The value entered in (3) is registered in a record in the user management file 122 with a user name of the user ID displayed in the user ID display area 5111. That is, the X and y values of the image size of the record are updated to the values entered in the size (vertical) designated area 5 12 and the size (horizontal) designated area 5 13, respectively. Close the change screen 5 1 0. This update operation may be set so that all users of the WWW browser 100 can perform the update operation, or may be set so that only the system administrator can perform the update operation. When the cancel button 5 15 is selected, the user management file editing section 1 1 1 b does not update any record in the user management file 1 22 and updates the image size change screen 5. Close 1 0.

FIG. 7 shows the bookmark display screen 200 similar to FIG. 3A, and includes the menu section 230, the folder display section 210, the image display section 220, and a plurality of images 2300. Contains 2 1 In the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 7, the login control unit 111c selects the administrator (A) from the pull-down menu 24 ◦, and further displays the sub-display displayed as a result of the selection. When the login (I) is selected from the menu 600, the password designation screen 6100 shown in the popup window of FIG. 7 is displayed. The passcode designation screen 6110 comprises a passcode input area 611, an OK button 612, and a cancel button 613. When the OK button 612 is selected, the login control unit 111c checks the entered administrator password. The check of the manager's passcode is performed by comparing the manager's passcode stored in a predetermined area in advance with the input passcode. If the passwords match, the login control unit 111c closes the password designation screen 610, and the login as an administrator is completed. If the login control unit 111c does not match both passwords, a predetermined error message is issued. Output a message.

 The login control unit 111c also selects the administrator (A) from the pull-down menu 240 on the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 7, and displays the result of the selection. When the logout (〇) is selected from the submenu 600, the logout of the system administrator who has logged in is completed as described above, and a new login is enabled.

 FIG. 8 shows the bookmark display screen 200 similar to FIG. 3A, and includes the menu section 230, the folder display section 211, an image display section 220, and a plurality of images 2 Contains 2 1 The login control unit 1 1 1. When the login (I) is selected from the pull-down menu 240 on the bookmark display screen 200 shown in FIG. 8, the user ID specified in the first pop-up window shown in FIG. Display screen 700. The user ID designation screen 700 is composed of a user ID input area 701, an OK button 720, and a cancel button 703. When the OK button 720 is selected, the login control unit 111c displays a password designation screen 7110 of a second pop-up window shown in FIG.

On the other hand, when the cancel button 703 is selected, the login control unit 111c closes the user ID designation screen 700 and does not log in. The passcode designation screen 710 includes a passcode input area 711, an OK button 712, and a cancel button 713. Here, when the OK button 712 is selected, the login control section 111c records the record of the user name corresponding to the user ID entered on the user ID designation screen 700. It is determined whether or not the password existing in the user management file 122 and stored in the record matches the password entered on the password designation screen 7110. The login control unit 1 1 1 c determines whether the condition for the determination is not satisfied. In this case, a predetermined error message is displayed here, and the user is prompted to re-enter the password input area 711 of the password specification screen 7110, or the user ID specification screen 700 and the passcode specification screen 710 are displayed. close. When the cancel button 713 is selected, the mouth login control unit 111c closes the user ID designation screen 700 and the password designation screen 710 without performing the determination, and does not log in. If the login control unit 111c satisfies the determination condition, the login control unit 111c logs in the image display bookmark system as a general user who has input the passcode. Thereafter, the user to whom the mouth login has been permitted can use the image display bookmark system 100 according to the user's authority to register, change, and delete the bookmark set in the user management file 122. Can be used.

FIG. 9 shows a processing flow of bookmark registration. First, a user of the WWW browser 100 instructs registration of a bookmark (step S10). This bookmark registration instruction is, for example, an instruction to register a bookmark on the GUI screen of the WWW browser by a conventional method when a desired page is displayed on the page display of the WWW browser 100. It is. At this time, the bookmark registration unit 111d is activated, and the bookmark registration unit 111d stores the image data of the active screen displayed on the page display unit on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100 in the memory. Capturing (storing) in a storage device such as (Step S11). If the image display bookmark system of the present invention is provided by a program separate from the browser, the bookmark registration 咅 uses the API (Application Programming Interface) of the Windows 0 ws system, Specifying the window identifier obtained from the title of the WWW browser, obtaining the URL data specified and registered from the URL display section on the WWW browser, and displaying the page data The image of the corresponding page data is captured from the section. In this capture, not all data of the page is captured here, but only data of the active screen displayed on the page display unit of the WWW browser 100 is captured. Note that the active screen generally means a window in which a key input, a mouse operation, and the like are accepted in a multi-window environment. In addition, the bookmark registration unit 111d can also capture the entire page including the active screen or an arbitrary part, if necessary.In this case, the bookmark is displayed by the WWW browser 10◦. Missing parts can also be captured. Normally, due to storage resources and CPU capacity, the capacities captured with the same quality (resolution and color (eg, 256-color, 8-bit grayscale, or 1-bit monochrome)) are the same as the displayed image. Image quality can also be reduced. Next, the bookmark registration unit 111d stores the captured image in an image specified in a record having a user name corresponding to the currently logged-in user ID in the user management file 122. (X, y) (Step S1 2). The reduction of the capture image is performed, for example, as shown in FIG. The hatched area (2) in FIG. 10 indicates the original size of the page, and the area displayed on the page display section on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100 is indicated by (1). ing. The size of the page display section on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100 is a force that can be changed. For convenience, it is shown as an area (1) consisting of horizontal 300 pixels and vertical 150 pixels. To The image captured in step S11 is the image of the page displayed in the area (1), and may be a part of the original page or the entire page as in this example. There is also. If the size (x, y) of the image obtained in step S12 is “(100, 100)”, that is, 100 pixels horizontally and 100 pixels vertically, the area (1) Is reduced to the area (3) in FIG. This reduction is from 150 pixels vertically to 10 It converts voxels from 300 pixels horizontally to 100 pixels horizontally, resulting in a reduction of 2/3 in the vertical direction and 1/3 in the horizontal direction. In the case of 1Z3 reduction in the horizontal direction, three pixels must be represented by one pixel, such as taking the average of the colors of three pixels in a row, or representing one representative pixel. Reduction is performed by converting the three pixels into a single pixel in a conventional manner when selecting a cell.

 Next, the bookmark registration unit 111d stores the file name, title, and URL of the reduced capture image of the page, respectively, in the bookmark data format for the currently logged-in user. 3 is stored in the image file name, title, and URL fields of the newly added record, and the reduced image of the capture screen is stored in the reduced image data file 124. S13). Also, as described later, when determining whether or not a page has been updated, at the time of registration of this bookmark, the latest update date and time of the content of the page is obtained, and It is necessary to store the update date and time in the bookmark data file 123 as an initial value. Next, the bookmark display control unit 111 displays the reduced capture image of the page on the image display unit 220 of the bookmark display screen 200 (step S14).

Thereafter, the bookmark registration unit 111d stores the coordinates at which the respective reduced capture images are displayed in the `` coordinate values for displaying images '' field in the record of the bookmark data file 123. Let it. The contents of the “coordinate value for displaying image” field are then displayed by a general user of the WWW browser 100 or a system administrator by dragging the displayed image 222 with a mouse or the like. When the display position of 1 is changed, the force automatically changed by the bookmark registration unit 1 1 1d according to the display position. In the example, the general user of the WWW browser 100 and the system administrator cannot change the contents of the “coordinate values for displaying images” field by directly inputting the contents. Fig. 11 shows the case where the bookmark display control unit 1 1 e is started for the first time in order to display the bookmark edit screen 200 from the page display unit on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100. (That is, when started by the default user) is shown. First, the user is instructed to display the bookmark display screen 200. Here, the bookmark display control unit 111 e is started (step S20), and the bookmark display control unit 111 e e sets the control parameters set in the operation control parameter file 121. The value of the evening is read (step S21). Next, the bookmark display control unit 1 1 1 e searches for a record having the same user name as the default user ID read from the user control file 1 2 2 (Step S22).

Subsequently, it is determined whether or not a record having the same user name as the default user ID exists in the user management file 122 (step S23), and if it does not exist (step S23, N o). The bookmark display control section 1 1 1 e ends the processing. On the other hand, if it exists (step S23, Yes). The bookmark display control unit 111 e reads images from all the records of the bookmark data file 123 for the default user ID. The file name is read (step S24), and the image file having the image file name is read from the reduced image data file 124, and the image file is read in accordance with a predetermined rule and the bookmark The entire image is displayed in the image display section 220 of the display screen 200 (step S25), and the process ends. At this time, the bookmark display control unit 111 e transmits, via the bookmark registration unit 111 d, the coordinates at which they are displayed for each image to the bookmark data file 123 pair. Register in the “Coordinate value for displaying image” field in the corresponding record.

 FIG. 12 shows a process flow of displaying a bookmark of the user ID after the general user inputs the user ID. When the user ID is input to the user ID designation screen 700 in FIG. 8 and the 0K button 720 is selected, the mouth guin control unit 111c is activated (step S30). Next, the login control unit 111c password display screen 7110 is displayed, and the user inputs a password in the password input area 7111 of the screen (step S31). The login control unit 111c compares this password with the password of the record having the input user ID (user name) in the user management file 122 (step S32), and If the password and the password are not correct, the process ends (step S32, NG).

On the other hand, if both the user ID and the password are correct (step S32, OK), then the bookmark display control unit 111 e changes the registration flag from the record having the user name in the user management file 122, The profile information such as the change flag, the deletion flag, and the image size is read (step S33). Next, the bookmark display control unit 111 e reads an image file name from all the records of the bookmark data file 123 for the user ID, and then reads the image having the image file name. The file is read from the reduced image data file 124 (step S34), and the display of the folder display section 210 and the image display section 220 of the currently displayed bookmark screen 200 is completed. (Step S35). Then, according to a predetermined rule, the contents (image 222) of all the reduced image data files 124 read in step S334 are used as bookmark data in the image display section 220 of the bookmark display screen 200. Is displayed (step S36), and the process ends. At this time, the bookmark display control unit 111 e transmits each of the bookmarks via the bookmark registration unit 111 d. Regarding the image 221, the coordinates at which they are displayed are stored in the "coordinate value for displaying the image" field in the corresponding record of the bookmark data file 123.

FIG. 13 shows an editing screen 800 of the bookmark data file. The bookmark data file editing screen 800 is used to display the properties (title, URL, comment) of the image 222 displayed on the image display section 220 of the bookmark editing screen 200 to the bookmark data file 1. By reading from the record of 23, it is displayed by the bookmark data file editing unit 111f. The bookmark data file editing screen 800 includes a title input area 8001, a URL input area 802, a comment input area 803, a 〇K button 804, and a cancel button 805. When the Κ button 804 is selected, the bookmark data file editing section 111f opens the title input area 801, the URL input area 802, and the comment input area 800. The title, URL, and comment fields of the record in which the data of the bookmark corresponding to the image 221 in the bookmark data file 123 are respectively updated with the input contents of 3. The title and the comment are the ones that can be freely changed for the convenience of the user.Be careful because the URL changes the actual page accessed or cannot be found. It is. When the cancel button 805 is selected, the bookmark data file editing unit 111f ends without updating the bookmark data file 123. FIG. 14 shows a case where the user clicks the image 2 21 corresponding to the page from the image display section 220 of the bookmark display screen 200 to display a desired page, and the WWW browser 100 2 shows a processing flow until the page is displayed on the page display unit on the GUI screen of FIG. Figure 14 shows the WWW page display controller 1 This is a powerful section showing the processing flow of 1 1 h, and is divided into two sections (1) and (2), and (1) is a function of the WWW page display control section 1 1 1 h of the present embodiment. (2) is the function of the WWW browser 113. First, when one of the images 221 shown on the image display section 220 of the bookmark display screen 200 is clicked with the mouse (step S40), the WWW page display control section 1 1 1 h is displayed. Based on the value, a URL is read from the record corresponding to the image 221 of the book mark data file 123 (step S41). Next, the WWW page display control unit 111h transmits (notifies) the acquired URL to the WWW browser 113 (step S42). When the WWW browser 113 receives the URL (step S43), the WWW browser 113 accesses the WWW server indicated by the URL via the Internet 130, and displays the page indicated by the URL from the WWW server. Upon reception (step S44), the page is displayed on the page display section on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 100 in the same manner as in the related art (step S45), and the process ends.

 When the image display bookmark system of the present invention is provided by a program separate from the browser, the WWW page display control unit notifies the URL corresponding to the bookmark specified in the www browser and displays the URL on the browser. Display it. In the case of performing this control, for example, in the case of a Wndows system, a function of application-application communication such as DDE (Dynamic Data ExaChange) can be used.

DDE is an inter-process communication in which data is exchanged between applications using shared memory. The sender's application software exchanges real-time data when performing a one-time data transfer or sending updates to the receiver's application software when a new data becomes available. You can use DDE. This DDE usually involves the user It is run automatically between applications without any.

 The WWW browser has a rule on how to exchange DDE data with other applications, and the application that exchanges data with the WWW browser notifies the WWW browser of the data according to this rule. In other words, if you want to notify the WWW browser of the URL corresponding to the image specified from the bookmark list and display it, the WWW browser display control unit notifies the URL and the window ID of the browser according to the rules. As a result, the WWW browser opens the specified URL, and the content of the corresponding page is displayed. Similarly, even when the WWW browser display control unit obtains an HTML document according to the specified URL, the WWW browser notifies the WWW browser of the URL and the window ID of the browser according to the agreement. The contents are displayed. By the way, the processing flow is divided into two sections in Fig. 14 to make it easier to distinguish from the conventional functions. Not exclusively. Therefore, there is a possibility that the transmission and reception of the URL in steps S42 and S43 may not actually be necessary.

The automatic traversing unit 1 1 1 g is configured to execute the automatic traversal (minutes) stored in the file 122 from the previous circulating date and time stored in the user management file 122 for each user. At that time, all pages corresponding to all the bookmarks registered for the user (that is, the bookmark data stored in the bookmark data file 123 for the user) are copied via the Internet 130. It automatically traverses from one to the next, and updates the reduced image and title of the bookmark data to the latest one. Updating of the reduced image by the automatic patrol unit 1 1 1 g is performed in the same manner as the bookmark registration unit 1 1 1 d, by capturing the image of the page, and then reducing the captured image. This is done by storing the reduced image in the reduced image data file 124 with the image file name registered in the record in the bookmark data file 123 of the user. The setting and editing of the value of the automatic patrol (minute) in the user management file 122 are not shown here, but can be performed for each user by a predetermined editing screen. Further, the tour date and time in the user management file 122 are automatically updated by the automatic tour unit 111g each time the automatic tour unit 111g performs the automatic tour. Usually, when the automatic traversing unit (minutes) has elapsed, the automatic traversing unit 111g is powered on to the computer on which the automatic traversing unit 111g is executed, and the WW W browser The automatic traversing unit 1 11 g that is executed only under the condition that 1 13 is activated on the computer, but is not executed when the automatic traversing (minutes) elapses because the above conditions are not met, Next, it can be executed when the above condition is satisfied.

In addition, when such a page is automatically traversed, the page address (URL) is often changed, so that a screen showing an error message instead of the actual page screen (for example, In some cases, the page cannot be searched due to the address change (a screen indicating Not Found). In such a situation, the automatic patrol unit 111g of the present embodiment prepares an HTML file having a predetermined non-display tag on the web site side in the address (URL) before the change. By referring to the tag information, the page whose address (URL) has been changed can be accessed in the tour. The HTML file is, for example, "KU RELO CATE DATE =" 1 97 97 / 09Z08 1 2: 0 1: 00 "REURL =" http: //www.x.ne.jp/ "TYPE =" HIDDEN ">" The content is Where "TYPE =" HI DDE N "J This is a well-known HTML specification that specifies that the entire content should not be displayed on the browser. “DATE” specifies the date and time when the URL was changed, and “REURL” specifies the URL after the change. When the automatic patrol unit 11 lg receives the tag “ku RE LOCATE ...” at the time of automatic patrol, it accesses the address (URL) specified by “REURL”, and the page of the address Obtain the title, URL, and reduced image, and update the relevant record of the bookmark data file 123 and the reduced image data file 124 of the page to the latest contents as described above. Update to To display update information to be described later, the change date and time specified in “DATE” is set as the update date and time, and the flag “1” indicating that there is an update is set as the update flag. (In the example of the bookmark data file 123 in FIG. 15C, items corresponding to the update date and time and the update flag are not shown.) In addition, although the address (URL) is not changed, if the content of the page is changed, the administrator of the page will use a hidden tag similar to the tag of "KU RE LO CATE ..." If the latest update date and time is specified in accordance with the rules of the above, the automatic patrol unit 111g can acquire the latest update date and time of the page.

To display update information to be described later, the latest update date and time is stored in the bookmark data file 123, etc., and further stored in the bookmark data file 123, etc. A flag indicating whether the previous update date and time are different from the latest update date and time, that is, whether the page has been updated since the previous patrol (for example, if the flag is “1”, there is an update, the flag “ Is stored in the bookmark data file 123 as an update flag. The bookmark registration unit 111d must obtain the latest update date and time of the page when registering the bookmark, and store the update date and time in the bookmark data file 123 and the like. is there. Through the processing of the automatic patrol unit 111g, the user can capture and reduce the image of the latest page at each automatic patrol (minute) interval defined in the user management file 122. As a result, the latest reduced image 222 can be displayed in the image display 220 of the bookmark display screen 200 by the bookmark display controller 111e.

 Fig. 15A shows the structure of the operation control parameter file 122, and the operation control parameter file 122 contains user ID mode, URL access restriction, default user ID, and default pixel operation control. Parameter One night is stored. The content of each parameter is as described above.

 FIG. 15B shows the configuration of the user management file 122. The user management file 122 has a record for each user, and the record includes a “user name” and a “password”. , "Registration flag", "change flag", "deletion flag", "automatic patrol (minutes)", "last patrol date and time", and "image size" fields. The contents of each field are as described above.

 FIG. 15C shows the configuration of the bookmark data file 123 created for each user. The bookmark data file 123 has a record for each page registered as a bookmark. The record consists of the fields “Evening title”, “URL”, “Image file name”, “Comment”, and “Image coordinates”. The contents of each field are as described above.

 The folder display section 210 of the bookmark display screen 200 shows folders 211 in a hierarchical manner. Information on the hierarchical structure includes, for example, the bookmark data file 123 itself. Can be held by storing these in a hierarchical structure for each user.

FIG. 15D shows the bookmark data file 1 in the data storage device 120. The storage form of the reduced image data file 124 having each “image file name” in 23 is shown. BMP file formats such as "xxx1.bmp" and "XXX2.bmp" are shown as examples in the image file name, and any image file format that can be displayed on the bookmark display screen 200 is possible. It is not limited to this example.

FIG. 16A shows a bookmark display screen 200A of the second example displayed by the image display bookmark system of the second embodiment of the present invention. The bookmark display screen 200A shown in Fig. 16A is the same as the one shown in Fig. 3 except that a title / update information display section 900 is added to each image 222 in the image display section 220A. This is the same as the bookmark display screen 200 shown in A. As shown in detail in FIG. 16B, the title / update information display section 900 has a title display section 9100 for displaying the image 221, that is, the title of the page, and an update information. It is composed of an update information display section 920 indicating the following. The title of the page shown in the title display section 9110 is stored in the bookmark display control section 111 e in a field called the title of each record in the book mark file 122. Displayed by displaying the title of the page. In the example of Fig. 16B, the title "Yellow Pages" is displayed. As described above, the title of the page is initially stored in the field of the title of each record in the bookmark data file 123 by the bookmark registration unit 111d. . Further, if there is a change in the title thereafter, the field is updated by the automatic traveling unit 111g. By displaying the title of the page on the title display section 910, in addition to the advantage that the bookmark can be easily identified by the image 2 21, the title displayed on the title display section 9 10 Can also identify and confirm bookmarks. In addition, the title is an error (WWW server) in the automatic patrol unit 11g. These error messages are displayed instead of the actual image of the page due to the time-out due to the busy state of the page, or the inability to search for the page (Not Found) due to the change of the page address (URL). When the screen shown, etc. is obtained, it will help to identify the page.

 In addition, the automatic patrol unit 1 1 1 g, at the time of patrol, as described above, updates the bookmark flag indicating whether or not the content or address of the page has been updated since the previous patrol. 2 Save to 3 mag. Based on this update flag, as shown in FIG. 16B, the bookmark display control unit 1 1 1 e generates an image 2 corresponding to each page in the bookmark display screen 20 OA image display unit 22 OA as shown in FIG. 16B. On the lower right side of 21 (update information display section 920), for example, the letters "UPDATE" are displayed. If the automatic patrol unit 111g determines that the content or address of the page has not been updated since the previous patrol, the automatic patrol unit 111g may update the update flag stored in the bookmark data file 123 or the like. After that, when displaying the bookmark display screen 200, the bookmark display control unit 1 1 1 e refers to the update flag and updates the display contents of the update information display unit 920. clear. This makes it easy for the user to see which pages have had their addresses (URLs) or content updated since the last visit.

 The screen transitions, screen configurations, and file structures described here are disclosed only as examples for explaining the present invention, and those skilled in the art will consider many other screen transitions, screen configurations, and file structures. be able to.

The explanation of the operation is based on the operation of Microsoft Windows 95, but the present invention is not limited to such an individual operating system (OS). Includes other Macs such as Apple Mac OS and Sun Microsystems S 0 1 aris, Sun 0 S It can be executed in any operating environment (blatform).

 Furthermore, while the above description has been given only with respect to page access via the Internet 130, in various system configurations including the Intranet Extranet, an HTML file on a local disk, a LAN, The image display bookmark system of the present invention can also be used to display HTML files on a remote server connected via MAN, WAN, or the like.

 Further, without being limited to HTML files, it is also possible to use the file described in VRML (Virtua lRea li ty Mod e li n ig L a n g u a g e) or XML (eXt e n s i b l e Ma r k u p L a ngu a g e).

 In addition, the “Automatic tour (minutes)”, “Last tour date and time”, and “Image size” data are set separately for each bookmark in the bookmark data file 123 instead of the user management file 122. May be set.

 Also, instead of a reduced image of the page displayed on the WWW browser, an image of a portion specified by the user (clipping image) may be used for displaying the bookmark. Further, the system may automatically extract a characteristic portion from the image of the page and display the extracted image. Alternatively, the image of the entire page (original image) may be used instead of the reduced image of the page. When the list of bookmarks is displayed, the system automatically determines the reduction ratio of the original image according to the number of registered bookmarks, and determines the reduction ratio according to the reduction ratio. Alternatively, a reduced image of the page may be displayed. Each function related to the image display may be displayed as a menu item so that the user can select a desired display method from the menu.

Figure 17 shows a combination that implements the image display bookmark system 100 described above. 3 shows an example of the hardware configuration of the printer 100. The computer 1000 has a CPU 1001, a storage unit 1002, a memory unit 1003, a display unit 1004, and an input unit 1000 connected to the bus 1008, respectively. 5, consisting of a printing unit 1006 and a network interface unit 107. The CPU 1001 corresponds to the processing device 110 in FIG. 2, and displays the bookmark display screens 200 and 200A of the present embodiment in addition to the execution of the conventional WWW browser 113. Data transmission / reception processing and various processing in response to data input from the input unit 1005. The storage unit 1002 corresponds to the data storage device 120 in FIG. 2, and the network interface unit 112 executed by the CPU 101, the WW browser 113, and A program for realizing each function of the bookmark processing unit 111 of the image display bookmark system 100 of the embodiment, the operation control parameter file 121, the user management file 122, and Each file of the bookmark data file 123 and the reduced image data file 124 is stored, and the bookmark processing unit 111, the WWW browser 113, and the OS are stored in the memory unit 103. (Not shown) and the data they use are spoken as needed. A display unit 1004 corresponds to the display device 160 in FIG. 2, and a CRT for displaying a page display unit on the GUI screen of the WWW browser 113, a bookmark display screen 200, a 20A OA, and the like. It is a display device such as a display. The input unit 1005 corresponds to the input device 150 in FIG. 2, and is an input device including a keyboard, a mouse, and the like for a user to give an instruction or input on the bookmark display screen 200, 200A. is there. The printing unit 1006 prints the data stored in the storage unit 1002 and the like and the bookmark display screen 200 and the like displayed on the display unit 1004 according to a user's instruction. A printing device such as a laser printer. The network interface unit 107 is used by the network interface unit 112 of FIG. 2 to transmit and receive data to and from a WWW server. It is a communication interface device for enabling connection to the Internet 130 and transmitting and receiving page data of a Web site. Nos. 1008 corresponds to the bus 140 in FIG. 2 and the components 1 0 0 1 to

This is a common transmission path for transmitting and receiving data, commands, and the like between 107. Industrial applicability

 As described above in detail, according to the present invention, a reduced image of a page registered as a bookmark can be registered as bookmark information, and the reduced image can be used to identify a bookmark. Since it is displayed as a list of symbols, it consists of long character strings, contains very small characters and English notation, or is difficult to understand. Anyone can easily identify and access the page.

 In addition, registration (addition), deletion, and modification of all bookmarks can be restricted for each WWW browser user, and general users can directly access the page by directly entering the page address (URL). Can also be forbidden. In addition, a page registered as a bookmark is automatically circulated, and the latest image, URL or title of the page can always be obtained, and the bookmark can always be kept up-to-date.

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1. Bookmark registration means for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

 Bookmark display control means for displaying the image information registered by the bookmark registration means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 2. When the image information displayed by the bookmark display control means is designated, the apparatus further comprises a page acquisition instruction means for instructing a browser to acquire page data based on address information corresponding to the image information. The image display bookmark system according to Item 1.

 3. When the image information displayed by the bookmark display control means is designated, the page display control means for displaying the page obtained at a time based on the address information corresponding to the image information is further provided. The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, wherein the bookmark system is provided.

 4. The bookmark registering means registers the address information and the image information for each user,

 The bookmark display control means displays the image information about the designated user based on the information about the user registered in the bookmark registration means.

 The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, wherein:

5. The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, further comprising a bookmark editing unit for editing the image information and the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit.

6. The image information and address information registered by the bookmark A user authority definition means for defining authority for editing for each user;

 Control means for restricting editing of the image information and the address information by the bookmark editing means for each user based on the authority defined by the user authority definition means;

 6. The image display bookmer according to claim 5, further comprising:

7. The bookmark registration unit further registers the title information of the page data,

 The bookmark display control means displays the image information and the title information registered by the bookmark registration means,

 The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, wherein:

8. Bookmark registration means for registering the address information on the network, the image information of the page data obtained based on the address information, and

 The page data is acquired at predetermined time intervals based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit, and is obtained by comparing the content of the page data with the content of the previous acquisition of the page data. Automatic patrol means for registering update information indicating whether or not the content of the page data has been updated;

 An image display bookmark system comprising: a bookmark display control unit configured to display image information registered by the bookmark registration unit and update information registered by the automatic patrol unit.

 9. The bookmark display control means, if the update information registered by the automatic patrol means indicates that the content of the page data has been updated, displays the image information of the page data. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, characterized in that:

10. The update information is a display content when the page data is displayed, 9. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, wherein the information is information indicating that at least one of the address information corresponding to the page data and the title information of the page data has been updated.

 11. The automatic patrol means includes a page data card acquired based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration means, and information relating to a change in address information corresponding to the page. 9. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, wherein when there is, the page data acquired based on the information on the change is acquired.

 12. The image information of page data displayed by the bookmark display control means includes a reduced image of an image displayed when a browser acquires the page data. 21. The image display bookmark system according to any one of claims 11 to 11.

 13. A bookmark registration procedure for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

 A bookmark display control procedure for displaying the image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure,

 When specifying the image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure, a page acquisition instruction procedure instructing a browser to acquire page data based on address information corresponding to the image information;

 Computer-readable recording medium that stores a program that causes a computer to execute the program.

 14. A bookmark registration procedure for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

A bookmark display control procedure for displaying the image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure, When the image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure is designated, a page display control procedure for displaying page data acquired based on address information corresponding to the image information;

 Computer-readable recording medium that stores a program that causes a computer to execute the program.

 15. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by a WWW browser,

 Creation means for creating at least bookmark information including image information of a page displayed by the www browser and address information of the page; and a bookmark for registering the bookmark information created by the creation means in a storage means. Registration means,

 Reading means for reading the bookmark information including the image information of the page displayed by the www browser stored in the storage means;

 Bookmark display control means for displaying an image for identifying the page on a screen based on the image information included in the bookmark information read by the reading means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 1 6. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

 When an image displayed based on the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser included in the bookmark information is selected on the screen, the bookmark information including information on the image information is stored from the storage unit. Reading means for reading the

Acquiring means for acquiring an image of the page based on the address information of the page registered in the bookmark information read by the reading means; WW page display control means for displaying an image of the page acquired by the acquisition means on a screen,

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 17. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

 The bookmark information stored in the storage means includes at least image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser and address information of the page, and has bookmark editing means for editing the contents of the bookmark information. An image display bookmark system characterized by the following.

 1 8. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by a WWW browser,

 At least image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser;

A bookmark registration unit for registering, in a storage unit, bookmark information including address information of the page and title information of the page;

 A book for reading the bookmark information stored in the storage means and displaying an image for identifying the page based on at least the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser included in the bookmark information Mark display control means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

1 9. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

 At least image information of the page displayed by the www browser and

Bookmark registration for registering bookmark information including update information indicating whether the title information on the page, the address information of the page or the contents of the page has been changed since the previous access to the storage means. Means, An image for reading the bookmark information stored in the storage unit and identifying the page created based on the image information of the page displayed by the www browser, which is included in the bookmark information; Bookmark display control means for displaying information based on the update information together on a screen;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 20. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

 An access unit for automatically accessing a page of an address specified by address information of a page included in each bookmark information stored in the storage unit based on predetermined time information, and acquiring change information on the page; When the access unit obtains the change information of the page, the information included in the bookmark information including the address information is updated based on the change information, and the bookmark after the update is updated. Registration means for registering information in the storage means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 21. In the method of displaying and selecting the bookmark information used by the WWW browser, at least a bookmark registration for registering the bookmark information including the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser and the address information of the page in the storage means. Steps and

 A bookmark display control step of displaying an image for identifying the page on a screen of a display unit based on the image information of the page included in the bookmark information;

When the image of the page is selected by the selection unit on the screen, the bookmark information including the information on the image information is read from the storage unit. WWW page display control for acquiring an image of a page at an address specified by the address information of the page registered in the read bookmark information, and displaying the acquired image of the page on a screen. Steps and

 Display / selection method of image display bookmark information characterized by having:

22. A recording medium that records a program that implements a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by a WWW browser. The recording medium should be displayed at least on the screen of the display means by the WWW browser.

A bookmark registration step of registering bookmark information including image information of the page and address information of the page in a storage means;

 A bookmark display control step of reading image information of the page included in the bookmark information from the storage unit, and displaying an image for identifying the page on a screen of the display unit based on the image information When,

 On the screen, when the image of the page is selected, the bookmark information corresponding to the page is read from the storage unit, and the bookmark information registered in the read bookmark information is read. A www page display control step of acquiring an image of the page at the address specified by the address information and displaying the acquired image of the page on the screen of the display means;

A computer-readable recording medium storing a program to be executed by the computer. Claims in the certificate

[19/19/19/19/19/19] Accepted by the International Bureau: Claims 1, 3, 13, and 14 at the time of filing were amended; Claim 2 has been withdrawn; other claims remain unchanged. (Page 7)]

1. bookmark registration means for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

 Bookmark display control means for displaying a list of image information registered by the bookmark registration means;

 When one image information is designated from the image information displayed in a list by the bookmark display control means, a page acquisition instruction means for instructing a browser to acquire a page data based on address information corresponding to the image information; and ,

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 3. Bookmark registration means for registering address information on the network, image information of page data obtained based on the address information, and

 Bookmark display control means for displaying a list of image information registered by the bookmark registration means;

 When one piece of image information is designated from the list of image information displayed by the bookmark display control means, a page display control means for displaying page data obtained based on address information corresponding to the image information,

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 4. The bookmark registering means registers the address information and the image information for each user,

 The bookmark display control means displays the image information about the designated user based on the information about the user registered in the bookmark registration means;

The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, wherein: 5. Paper with corrected image information and address information registered by the bookmark registration means (Article 19 of the Convention) 2. The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, further comprising a book mark editing means for editing.

 6. User authority defining means for defining, for each user, authority for editing the image information and address information registered by the bookmark registering means,

 Control means for restricting editing of the image information and the address information by the bookmark editing means for each user based on the authority defined by the user authority definition means;

 6. The image display bookmark system according to claim 5, further comprising:

7. The bookmark registration means further registers the title information of the page data,

 The bookmark display control means displays image information and title information registered by the bookmark registration means,

 The image display bookmark system according to claim 1, wherein: 8. Bookmark registration means for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

 The page data is acquired at predetermined time intervals based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration unit, and is obtained by comparing the content of the page data with the content of the previous acquisition of the page data. Automatic patrol means for registering update information indicating whether or not the contents of the page have been updated;

 An image display bookmark system comprising: a bookmark display control unit configured to display image information registered by the bookmark registration unit and update information registered by the automatic patrol unit.

9. The bookmark display control means, if the update information registered by the automatic patrol means indicates that the content of the page data has been updated, the corrected paper (Article 19 of the Convention) 9. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, wherein the image information of the page is displayed.

 10. The update information is information indicating that at least one of display content when the page data is displayed, address information corresponding to the page data, and title information of the page data has been updated. 9. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, wherein:

 11. The automatic circulating means is provided when the page data acquired based on the address information registered by the bookmark registration means has information on a change in address information corresponding to the page data. 9. The image display bookmark system according to claim 8, wherein page data obtained based on the information on the change is obtained.

 12. The image information of page data displayed by the bookmark display control means includes a reduced image of an image displayed when a browser acquires the page data. Item 1. The image display bookmark system according to Item 11.

 13. A bookmark registration procedure for registering address information on the network, image information of page data acquired based on the address information, and

 A bookmark display control procedure for displaying a list of image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure;

 When one piece of image information is designated from the list of image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure, a page acquisition instruction procedure instructing a browser to acquire page data based on address information corresponding to the image information,

 Computer-readable recording medium that stores a program that causes a computer to execute the program.

14 4. Address information on the network and the paper obtained and corrected based on the address information (Article 19 of the Convention) A bookmark registration procedure for registering image information of page data to be registered, and a bookmarker for displaying a list of image information registered in the bookmark registration procedure.

-Display control procedure

 When one piece of image information is designated from the list of image information displayed in the bookmark display control procedure, a page display control procedure for displaying page data acquired based on address information corresponding to the image information;

 Computer-readable recording medium that stores a program that causes a computer to execute the program.

 15. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by a WWW browser,

 Creating means for creating at least bookmark information including image information of a page displayed by the www browser and address information of the page; and a bookmark for registering the bookmark information created by the creating means in a storage means. Registration means,

 Reading means for reading the bookmark information including image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser stored in a storage means;

 Bookmark display control means for displaying an image for identifying the page on a screen based on the image information included in the bookmark information read by the reading means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 16. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

When an image displayed based on image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser included in the bookmark information is selected on the screen, the bookmark information including information on the image information is stored from the storage unit. Amended form (Article 19 of the Convention) Readout means for outputting,

 Acquiring means for acquiring an image of the page based on address information of the page registered in the bookmark information read by the reading means; and displaying an image of the page acquired by the acquiring means on a screen. WWW page display control means for

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 17. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used by WWW browsers,

 The bookmark information stored in the storage means includes at least page image information and page address information displayed by the WWW browser, and has bookmark editing means for editing the contents of the bookmark information. An image display bookmark system characterized in that:

 1 8. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used in a WWW browser,

 At least image information of a page displayed by the WWW browser;

A bookmark registration unit for registering, in a storage unit, bookmark information including address information of the page and title information of the page;

 A book that reads the bookmark information stored in the storage unit and displays an image for identifying the page based on at least the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser included in the bookmark information. Mark display control means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

 1 9. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used in a WWW browser,

At least the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser and the corrected paper (Article 19 of the Convention) Bookmark registration for registering bookmark information including update information indicating whether the title information on the page, the address information of the page or the content of the page has been changed since a previous access to the storage means. Means for reading the bookmark information stored in the storage means, and identifying the page created based on the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser, which is included in the bookmark information. An image and a bookmark display control means for displaying information based on the update information together on a screen;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

20. In a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used in a WWW browser,

 An access unit for automatically accessing a page of an address specified by address information of a page included in each bookmark information stored in the storage unit based on predetermined time information, and acquiring change information on the page; When the access unit acquires the change information of the page, the information included in the bookmark information including the address information is updated based on the change information, and the updated bookmark is updated. Registration means for registering information in the storage means;

 An image display bookmark system comprising:

2 1. Display of bookmark information used by WWW browser In the selection method, at least bookmark registration for registering the bookmark information including the image information of the page displayed by the WWW browser and the address information of the page in the storage means. Steps and

Bookmark display control for displaying an image for identifying the page on the screen of the display means based on the image information of the page included in the bookmark information Corrected paper (Article 19 of the Convention) Steps and

 When the image of the page is selected by the selection unit on the screen, the bookmark information including the information on the image information is read from the storage unit, and registered in the read bookmark information. A WWW page display control step of acquiring an image of a page at an address designated by the address information of the acquired page, and displaying the acquired image of the page on a screen;

 Display / selection method of image display bookmark information characterized by having:

22. A recording medium that records a program that implements a bookmark system that can manage bookmark information used in a WWW browser, and at least the program must be displayed on the screen of the display means by the www browser.

A bookmark registration step of registering bookmark information including image information of the page and address information of the page in a storage means;

 A bookmark display control step of reading image information of the page included in the bookmark information from the storage unit, and displaying an image for identifying the page on a screen of the display unit based on the image information When,

 When an image of the page is selected on the screen, the bookmark information corresponding to the page is read from the storage unit, and the address information of the page registered in the read bookmark information is read. A WWW page display control step of acquiring an image of the page of the designated address, and displaying the acquired image of the page on a screen of the display unit;

 A computer-readable recording medium storing a program to be executed by the computer.

Amended paper (Article 19 of the Convention)